One of the last pieces I write all year is also one of the most important ones. Take a moment today to remember the players with Brewers, Milwaukee Braves and Wisconsin connections we lost this year:

Born this Day: Richie Sexson W/Brewers: 2000-2003 2x All-Star .902 OPS 133 HR 398 RBI 11.3 WAR

I'm not confident anything has gotten better since we made Johnny Knoxville famous.

For context: The Brewers' 70 full shares is closer to the low end of the spectrum (the Phillies gave out 64) than the high end (the Red Sox gave out 91).

There might not be anybody in sports who gets less from more and then blames it on his players quite like Penny Hardaway.

One of the routine defenses of the Brewers' low payroll is that they spend money on stuff like this. So now that they don't have to/can't we should expect a big influx of spending, right?

The Giants, who missed the postseason by just two games, got the #4 pick in the 2026 Draft. The Reds, who got that postseason spot and faced the Dodgers on the road, were left out of the lottery. The draft lottery might disincentivize tanking, but it doesn't always disincentivize losing.

The 2026 ZiPS projections for the Milwaukee Brewers are now up on @fangraphs.com. blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-zips-pr...

If you see Christian Yelich today be sure to wish him a happy 34th birthday. Maybe don't tell him, however, that I suggested the Brewers might use a Freddy Peralta deal to try to unload his contract: shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

Happy Thanksgiving, Brewers fans.

Troy O'Leary LF-RF Debut: 1993 - Retired: 2003 BOS - MON - CHC - MIL

This is the underrated cousin of "Enjoy your meal"/"Thanks, you too."

OH: "Hey man, how are you?" "Good, how are you?" "Good, how are you?" "Good."

If the MLB offseason was a nine inning game, today we'd be starting the top of the second inning.

Today I learned that the "club" in "book club" is a noun, not a verb. Now what am I supposed to do with all these hardcover books?

Am I breaking #Brewers video game news now? I guess so. I helped reveal Brewers #FINEST2025 in @MLBTHESHOW mlbthe.show/finest2025

"You can’t salary cap a team into caring; it can only punish the teams that do." On the Dodgers, and the exhausting conversation ahead:

Shoutout to The Field of 68 for attempting to revive the Tip Off Marathon. Much appreciated

Change one letter, ruin a candy: S&M's

Chris Bassitt on change in routines with the bullpen move: Can't have a rally beer anymore

This game needs to end just so we can stop seeing all these commercials for awful Fox shows.

Super pumped for Janet Jackson. And Ohtani too, I guess.

OH: "I don't want endorphins! They never come in my size!"

Today is the kind of day where you can admire someone's Halloween costume but can't actually compliment them on it because there's a ~10% chance they just look like that.

What a time to be alive. Today I had a song from Earthbound in my head and, on one try, found the game's entire soundtrack on Spotify.

40 of the players on MLB Pipeline's list of the game's top 100 prospects are 22 or older. Jackson Chourio, who just finished his second MLB season, won't turn 22 until March.

I suspect I know what today's Brewer History calendar entry is going to be going forward.

I can only speak from my own experience here, but the best way to work on your writing is to write. A lot. You need a routine, you need a rhythm, it's how you develop your voice. You should also read, too, and I don't just mean books. Just keep all of that part of your brain active and well-fed.

Umpire cam was so close to the play that you could see the second Freddie Freeman spotted updog.

Everyone loves their manager when he wins, but this is the kind of stuff that gets old real fast when he doesn't.

I think it's weird Pat Murphy thinks his whole staff should make less than Blake Snell

Looks like a strong possibility road teams are about to improve to 5-0 in the LCS this season, so at least the Brewers have that going for them.

Remember back in early August when the Brewers were 44-16 in their last 60 games, the best 60-game stretch in franchise history? It turns out this season they also had the best stretch of every number of games from 61-103, also.

The grumpiest people in America right now are the news people working at Fox affiliates around the country waiting for this post-game to end so they can produce an extremely late local newscast no one will watch.

Good thing Crawford didn't bunt there.

Not one of you took me up on this and now this game is eternal.

This ump cam gets us so close to the action you can almost see updog.

Brewers pitching in this series has allowed 11 runs in the 4 first innings of this series. Across the other 26 innings? 2 runs.

Cubs-Brewers Game 4 on Thursday night will be an 8:08 p.m. CT start at Wrigley.

I had the volume up on the Yankees game for less than half an inning before hearing John Smoltz derisively refer to "analytics" and now I want to stick my head in the microwave.

Back at the trade deadline someone predicted that the Brewers had just signed themselves up for Andruw Monasterio batting with a playoff game on the line. I can't seem to find the post now but if it was you, congrats.

I wonder how many times over the years i've talked on podcasts with Chris Mehring about the skill of being a reliever who comes in and immediately throws strikes.

When LatAm players act the way PCA does, they get talked about very differently.

At least today the people having a conniption because other people aren't loud enough are at Wrigley, not AmFam.

That sound you just heard is Brant Brown, trapped there for decades, getting off the hook.

I see The Athletic is identifying s hockey contract as the greatest bargain in sports history and completely ignoring the Brewers getting Andrew Vaughn for someone who didn't want to be there.

You know, for all the talk about the gritty small-ball Brewers .. they've been mashing, too in Aug: third best SLG % in baseball

Most RBIs, #Brewers postseason history: Ryan Braun - 16 (114 PA) Cecil Cooper - 13 (71 PA) Jackson Chourio (18 PA) & Paul Molitor (77 PA) - 9

Obviously winning Game 1 improved the Brewers' chances of winning the NLDS, but how much? My latest for Shepherd Express looked at the numbers several ways: share.google/kTU4kgS4JHoz...

If the Brewers win this game folks are going to have to do some real mental gymnastics to continue the "they aren't dependent on home runs" narrative.